Paris The UN cultural agency said on Tuesday – about three -fourths of the world’s cultural and natural heritage sites are threatened with much or much water. As a result of rising temperatures, excessive weather incidences including storms, droughts, floods and heatwaves have become more frequent and acute, warning by scientists.
UNESCO stated that the list of UNESCO heritage is exposed to the risk of at least one of all 1,172 non-community sites at least one severe water risk-including water tension, drought, river floods or coastal floods, UNESCO said.
“Water tension is estimated to intensify, mostly the Middle East and parts of North Africa, South Asia and Northern China-to present long-term risks to the establishment, cultural heritage, and communities and tourism economies that depend on them,” he said.
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UNESCO studies showed that cultural sites were at the highest risk of water scarcity, while more than half of the natural sites faced the risk of floods from the nearby river.
In India, the Taj Mahal monument in Agra, for example, “faces water scarcity that is increasing pollution and reducing groundwater, causing damage to the mausoleum,” the study states.
In the United States, “in 2022, a large scale All below floods of Yelostone National Park stopped And the cost of more than $ 20 million in repair of infrastructure to reopen. ,
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The report gave four more examples.
Iraq’s southern swamp – iconic homes of the Bible of Eden’s Bible – “Extreme high water stress, where more than 80 percent of renewable supply is withdrawn to meet human demand,” it said.
And the competition for water is expected to grow in the swamp, where migratory birds live and the residents increase the buffalo, as the area is hot in the coming years.
On the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, the Victoria Falls-Moshi-O-Tutya (“The Smoke the Thunder”), named by the Scottish Explorer David Livingstone, has suffered drought and sometimes decreases in a trick.
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In Peru, the walls of the East-Kolumbian city of Chan Chan and its delicate 1,000 year old Adobe have to face a high risk of flooding in the river, said by UNESCO.
In China, sea levels operating in large parts than climate change are leading to coastal floods, destroying the maddlands where migrant waterbirds get food, the couple.
Specific warning on floods and droughts comes nearly a decade after an independent Scientific study It was found that 720 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including Statue of Liberty and London Tower, Can be consumed by rising seas If climate is heating up at current rates within 2,000 years.
The study calculated that 136 sites would be in danger if the global average temperature rises to 3 ° C from pre-industrial levels-a figure well within Estimated range in the latest United Nations report On climate change, which estimated that without significant policy changes, 2-degrees are 97% likely to warming, and 3-degree Celsius average warming is 37% likely.
